Fear Quotes

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.

Doug Firebaugh

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Dorothy Thompson

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Alexander Maclaren

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Jean Paul

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Andrew Jackson

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Evita Peron

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Barbra Streisand

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Ina

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Aga

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

Gillian Anderson

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

Deepak Chopra

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Lord Byron

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie